#lose

Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#closed #company #economic #environmental #last

If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer. ↗

— Lewis Black

#closer #hop #i #i believe #islands

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing. ↗

— Tony Blair

#do the right thing #lose #right #right thing #sometimes

I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#am #because #break #close #happening

If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#another #brief #clusters #composer #four

These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last! ↗

— John Dillinger

#buy #children #could #dollars #few

I don't know how many people run for vice president and president and lose both. ↗

— Bob Dole

#how #i #know #lose #many

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.' ↗

— Jason Dohring

#because #been #better #career #close

It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#hotel #matter #never #staying #whole

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#because #better #damn #fit #into